Mile

Car mile

A mile traveled by a single car taken as a unit of computation as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period...

Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden to come within five miles of a corporate town, and non-conformists were forbidden to teach in any school under heavy penalties; repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 1.A 1665 Act prohibiting Puritan minister from teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

Mile, a measure of length containing 8 furlongs, or 1760 yards, or 5280 feet...

twelve-mile limit

twelve-mile limit : a limit of a nation's territorial waters extending twelve miles from shore ...

Miles

Miles [Lat.], generally, a soldier; particularly, a knight....

Knot

Knot (nautical mile), a division of the log-line. So a ship going eight nautical miles in the hour is said to go eight knots. The nautical mile has been fixed by the British Admiralty at 6,080 feet. The land mile is 5,280 feet....

Milliary

Of or pertaining to a mile or to distance by miles denoting a mile or miles...

Cheap trains

Cheap trains. Early in the history of railways the companies were compelled by the (English) Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), sometimes called the Cheap Train Act, to run one train a day at a penny a mile fare; in respect of which trains (ss. 6, 7) termed 'parliamentary trains,' or 'Government trains,' the companies were exempt from the passenger duty otherwise charge-able. Disputes arising between the companies and the Government as to the extent of this exemption, the (English) Cheap Trains Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 34), abolished the duty altogether on all fares not exceeding one penny per mile and empowered he board of Trade to require any company to provide proper accommodation at such fares, and also reasonable accommodation for workmen going to and returning from their work. See Browne or Thebald on Railways....

Mileage

Mileage, travelling expenses which are allowed to witnesses, sheriffs, and bailiffs, according to certain scales of fees observed by the officers of the several courts. Formerly, borough coroners received 9d. a mile for every mile beyond two, by s. 171 and Sched. IV. of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882...

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Sea mile